Following Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday, Ukrainian officials are voicing concern over the US president’s apparent shift in tone after Putin demanded full control of Donetsk and Luhansk as a condition for ending the war.
On Truth Social, Trump said he wanted to “go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which often times do not hold up”.
Speaking to the Financial Times about Putin’s demands, a senior Ukrainian official said: “This is a stab in the back.”
Another senior Ukrainian official said: “He just wants a quick deal.”
Meanwhile, Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told the outlet that the outcome of the summit was “awful”.
a senior Ukrainian official said: “This is a stab in the back.”
I’m sure this “stabbed-in-the-back” theory won’t have any lasting effects.
I just found the difference in international headlines interesting when contrasted with US-based outlets.
- International Headline: “These were the motherfucker’s demands.”
- US Headline: “President Trump and Putin did not come to an agreement.”
He basically wants Ukraine to surrender. Nothing less.
So what everyone already knew. It would also be stupid of Russia not to demand areas up to Crimea so that Ukraine can’t try to shut water off to Crimea again.
Russia is winning. Anyone that expected anything different is just delusional.
He just wants conflict resolution by any means necessary so he can get his peace prize regardless of consequences.
No, they can’t be bogged down in Ukraine if they want to defeat China. This has always been about salvaging the disaster that this war has been.
Yet no peace in Southwest Asia
Oh, so Putin will give up Crimea?
He should, it rightfully belongs to the Tatars. Just because it was conquered by the Russian Empire doesn’t mean that any of its descendant states have any right to claim it. This was a wrong that the USSR should have righted when it created SSRs for other nations conquered by the Russian Empire but somehow for reasons that I don’t know didn’t do the same for the Crimean Tatars.
I was making a joke about how Putin is anchoring the discussion to not even include Crimea.
Yeah, there’s no way that Crimea is on the table. Russia is keeping it and all the Russian majority regions in Ukraine.
